Mateen Hafeez TNN
Mumbai: Actor Shiney Ahuja may be shifted from Arthur Road jail to the Thane central prison after the World Cup final on Saturday. The 38-year-old star on Wednesday was sentenced to seven years’ rigorous imprisonment for raping his maid in his Oshiwara flat on June 14, 2009.
“Shiney was brought to the Arthur Road jail on Wednesday and has been kept in a special cell,” said a jail official. “He has not been kept in the general barrack. Those convicted in murder and rape cases are generally kept in isolated cells,” he added
Sources said there is a shortage of personnel to escort inmates from one to jail to another as most of them have been assigned for bandobast duty ahead of the India-Lanka match.
“Due to the World Cup, most of the policemen have been diverted to beef up security in and around Wankhede stadium,” said a senior jail officer. Surender Kumar, IG (prisons) said, “We may send him to Thane prison. Only undertrials are lodged in Arthur Road jail.”
The Times of India, April 1, 2011
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